Sg2 Perspectives

Reprioritizing Priorities: How Advent Health Advances Its Strategic Agenda

After interviewing CEO of Advent Health Terry Shaw on the health system’s new financial and clinical realities earlier this year, we realized we wanted to expand on some of the themes from that conversation. So this week  Advent Health’s Corporate Vice President of Strategic Planning Josef Ghosn joins Sg2 Perspectives, along with special guest Bill Woodson, to dig deeper into the system’s accelerated priorities (eg, consumerism), its three-phase strategy development process—formulation, execution, activation—and how the role of the strategy officer is evolving.

 

We recommend revisiting Sg2 Perspectives episode 61, Shifting Goals and Emerging Priorities: Interview With Terry Shaw, President/CEO, AdventHealth, to hear how this conversation started!

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

The Art of Team Play: How Yale New Haven Health’s Finance and Strategy Teams Partner to Achieve Outstanding Results

In larger health systems, finance and strategy teams tend to speak different languages and work more in parallel than in tandem. In this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Yale New Haven Health’s CFO Vincent Tammaro and CSO Matthew Comerford discuss how their two teams partner to drive strategic planning and focus the organization on growth initiatives, as well as “the art of team play” that goes beyond just strategy and finance to incorporate a true team effort to work on behalf of the health system and—most importantly—the patients.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

How COVID-19 Affected Pediatrics and Children’s Hospitals: An Interview With Children’s Hospital Colorado

How did the COVID-19 pandemic affect children, as well as the health systems that serve them? This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we discuss the perceived impacts vs the reality with Raphe Schwartz, Chief Strategy Officer at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and Sean O’Leary, MD, infectious disease specialist and Director of Colorado Children's Outcomes Network. Sg2’s Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, also joins us to help reflect on the pandemic’s key clinical impacts—both direct (hospitalizations, deaths) and indirect (mental health issues)—on children.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

From Disrupter to Partner: Privia Health and Health First

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we discuss a new approach to a common challenge: physician alignment. Health First needed a new physician alignment mechanism, and Privia Health’s expertise in technology and value-based care made them the ideal partner. Partnering is never easy, but Drew Rector, Chief Strategy Officer at Health First, and Mike Flammini, Senior Vice President of Business Development with Privia Health, share what their organizations learned in the process and what they hope their new physician alignment model can achieve.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

System of CARE: Not Your Mother’s Channel Strategy

This week’s Sg2 Perspectives kicks off a three-part series focusing on our latest thinking around Sg2’s longstanding care continuum framework, which we call the System of CARE. In this episode, we talk with Sg2 VP of Strategic Analytics Yelena Bouaziz about channel strategy, and how moving patients through a care continuum is no longer just about primary care referral volumes—health systems can now leverage claims data to help them understand which of their ambulatory assets drive patient loyalty. We also discuss how leading organizations are looking to nontraditional metrics, such as customer lifetime value and share of wallet, to drive their strategic investment decisions and, ultimately, successfully attract and retain patients within their own System of CARE.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Key Themes From the 2021 Sg2 Impact of Change® Forecast

This week on Sg2 Perspectives, we are joined by Madeleine McDowell, MD, FAAP, Sg2’s Principal and Medical Director of Quality and Strategy, who is also the thought leader behind our flagship analytic, the Impact of Change (IoC) forecast. In this episode, Dr McDowell shares the key trends (as well as the toughest debates the Sg2 team tackled!) for hospitals and health systems from our recently released 2021 IoC forecast, including projections for ED utilization and site shifts for post-acute care. We also discuss some upcoming technology changes that will enable large shifts in care patterns.

 

Sg2 members can dive deeper into the IoC forecast details by watching our recent forecast highlights webinar on-demand and reading Dr McDowell’s related Expert Insight.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

Grill Bill: COVID-19 Disruption—What Sticks?

This week on Sg2 Perspectives we present another episode of Grill Bill, where we pick the brain of Sg2’s foremost health care strategy expert, Bill Woodson. Make sure to listen closely, as we cover a lot of ground through a series of rapid-fire questions on key strategic issues for health systems as they make progress with COVID-19 vaccination and recovery. Bill also shares his perspective on which of the many changes that have occurred over the past year will stick as we move into our new reality.

 

Previous episodes featuring Bill Woodson:

Episode 1

Episode 26

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Achieving the Promise of Scale: An Interview with Allison Rogers, SVP of Strategy at Ballad Health

Three years ago, two well-respected community health systems with overlapping geographic footprints merged to form Ballad Health. And while the work of delivering value and better health care to their communities was easily achievable on paper, it has been a lot more challenging to actually implement. This week, Allison Rogers, SVP of Strategy at Ballad Health, joins us to share the system’s journey—including how COVID-19 changed priorities and opportunities—and how, with the help of Ballad’s strategy team, it plans to continue the difficult work of realizing the promise of the merger.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Building a 2021 Growth Strategy: Consumer Patterns to Know

In past episodes of Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2’s Mark Larson and Vizient’s Dr Tom Villanueva have joined us to share findings from consumerism surveys (revisit episodes 18 and 45 to learn more). This week, we welcome them back as they take a comprehensive look at key consumerism trends from 2020 and what we have learned, and then discuss their perspective on how strategy teams should integrate these learnings in their immediate plans for capturing growth in 2021.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

How to Improve Health Care by Making Physicians Happy: An Interview With Village MD

How would the health care landscape change if physicians liked their EMRs, had plenty of support resources and were paid to keep people healthy? We may find out soon! Physician group models like VillageMD are spreading rapidly as new physicians join and larger scale partnerships are formed. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, VillageMD’s Cofounder and Chief Growth Officer Paul Martino and Medical Director Dr Karen Wetherell join us to share their physician group model experience, as well as their vision for the future of primary care.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

Is Health Care at Home Really the Future?

A patient’s home as a site of care has existed—and has been successful—for some time. But with new reimbursement changes and pressure on the future of skilled nursing facilities, health care providers must not only look deeper at how the home can be used as a site of care, but also understand its limitations. In this week’s Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 experts Jayme Zage, PhD, Katie Elia and Jeff Moser discuss and debate the logistical, financial, staffing and strategic criteria that can make health care work in the home setting. Hint: it isn’t easy.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

Shifting Goals and Emerging Priorities: Interview With Terry Shaw, President/CEO, AdventHealth

As the winter COVID-19 surge recedes, health system leaders can now turn their attention to the future. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Terry Shaw, a 37-year veteran of AdventHealth who is now the system’s president and CEO, joins us to talk about what this means for AdventHealth in particular: thinking about the new financial reality, continued growth opportunities, and new ways to engage and serve the needs (that sometimes go beyond health care) of consumers.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Targeted and Sustainable: A New Approach to Ambulatory Strategy

COVID-19 has only accelerated the care shift from the hospital to lower-cost sites. However, as health systems increasingly invest in ambulatory settings, they will need to be more purposeful about where, as return on investment will not necessarily present itself in downstream inpatient volumes. This week on Sg2 Perspectives, Sg2 Consulting Principals Amit Sharma and Mike Strilesky join us to discuss how health systems can achieve growth through targeted investments in ambulatory assets.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

 

Direct Contracting: How Disruptive is it?

The industry has waited anxiously for the launch of Medicare’s Direct Contracting model. Direct Contracting (DC) has the potential to accelerate the shift to value by targeting the traditional fee-for-service Medicare population and by encouraging non-traditional entrants to tackle health care’s cost problem through fresh innovative approaches. However, a global pandemic and a new administration may have complicated program roll-out. On this week’s episode of Sg2 Perspectives, Consulting Principal, Tawnya Bosko and, Intelligence Associate Principal, Brian Esser discuss DC’s status, changes to the program, and key considerations for health systems who plan to participate.

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.

Stories From the Field: Payer Negotiations

For the second installment of our series on financial strategy we share stories and themes from recent conversations around how, if at all, COVID-19 impacted negotiations between payers and providers.   

 

Steve Jenkins, Senior Advisor, Brian Esser, Associate Principal, and Rich Daly, Director, discuss what they have been hearing from the market and debate what it means. 

 

We are always excited to get ideas and feedback from our listeners. You can reach us at sg2perspectives@sg2.com, find us on Twitter as @Sg2HealthCare, or visit the Sg2 company page on LinkedIn.